"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."
"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself"
"It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it."
"Life is ours to be spent, not tobe saved."
"There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet."
"Life is ours to be spent, not tobe saved."